Space Age overview

Space Age is a paid Factorio expansion pack released on 21 October 2024, consisting of three additional mods.

The mods are:

• Space Age: a mod featuring four new planets, space platforms, and a redesigned tech tree.

• Quality: a mod that enables large "vertical" improvements to the capabilities of buildings and items.

• Elevated Rails: a mod that provides better rail routing and intersections.

Both "Quality" and "Elevated Rails" are dependency mods of "Space Age", but they can also be enabled individually.

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This expansion is not available on Nintendo Switch 1 due to space and memory constraints[1], and is exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2.

Space Age

The Space Age mod expands the tech tree and adds four new planets that the player can travel to using space platforms. Each planet has its own new resources, gameplay mechanics, original music, and unique challenges.

• Vulcanus: a molten, waterless planet where pools of lava can be cast into metal.

• Fulgora: a desert planet with frequent lightning; the only resources are piles of scrap left by an alien civilization.

• Gleba: a wet world teeming with plants and fungi, where biologically derived products eventually rot.

• Aquilo: a desolate frozen planet covered in liquid ammonia, where machinery will freeze unless heated.

Space Age adds 29 achievements, 30 intermediate products, 22 buildings, 8 hours of new original music, 5 science pack types, 5 weapons, 4 planets, and 2 enemy types. Instead of launching rockets, the final goal of Space Age is to build a space platform capable of reaching the edge of the solar system.

Quality

Main article: Quality*

The Quality mod introduces four higher quality tiers for all items, structures, and equipment, improving their attributes. The goal of quality is to allow factories to be upgraded "vertically" rather than simply scaling up. Higher-quality items are produced probabilistically when using new quality modules in production facilities. When enabled together with the Space Age mod, the top two quality tiers require technology from Gleba and Aquilo.

The Quality mod also includes a recycler that can convert most items back into raw materials, albeit with a 75% loss.

Elevated Rails

Adds rail ramps and rail pillars to construct elevated railways. Elevated rails function as a second layer of track above the ground, allowing most buildings to be placed underneath them. Elevated rails are especially useful for creating more efficient intersections, traversing difficult terrain, or bridging Nauvis's seas and Fulgora's oil seas.